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pangaia

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36. Yes you are right.
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 11:42 AM
Aug 2017

Now, I am pretty darn white.. BOORING...

Why, my goodness, I even dated a Jewish woman in college.
I dated a black woman in Memphis.
My first marriage was to a white woman from Little Rock.
My second marriage was to a Chinese woman.

When I was a kid the crowd I hung with (back then it was 'hung out with')-
included-
1- Jewish guy
1- Black guy
1- red-headed Catholic
1- dark haired Catholic
1- Native American from OK whose dad was a 'chief.' They called him CHIEF.
1- A guy whose name was actually Bill Shakespeare
1-Chinese guy,..maybe he was from Taiwan, I forget
1-and me, the WASP

Maybe that had some influence on me-

They are professional haters that's what they do Bladewire Aug 2017 #1
I made a meme about this SHRED Aug 2017 #2
Fortunately, Judah Benjamin never noticed it Pope George Ringo II Aug 2017 #3
They didn't feel threatened by Jews because so few were in the country LeftInTX Aug 2017 #17
A bit of a side note. Somewhat contra-intuitive, but South Carolina in particular seems to have GeoWilliam750 Aug 2017 #20
Probably the right sequence. Pope George Ringo II Aug 2017 #27
He held several cabinet positions before it was over. Abu Pepe Aug 2017 #30
Things were a little fluid for the CSA, it's true. Pope George Ringo II Aug 2017 #33
FUCK THEM! shenmue Aug 2017 #4
Well, yeah, if you count the murder of Leo Frank . . . . no_hypocrisy Aug 2017 #5
The march had nothing to do with Confederate Heritage oberliner Aug 2017 #6
It' is just a bunch of racists. Anybody with any pigment in their outer layer.... pangaia Aug 2017 #7
The funny thing is, I doubt very much that most of these people even know smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #28
Yes you are right. pangaia Aug 2017 #36
The Klan hated Jewish people as much as Blacks. Hoyt Aug 2017 #8
For a long time it hated Catholics too dflprincess Aug 2017 #12
I know. There is pride in something like that. Hoyt Aug 2017 #16
I think they allowed Catholics because their membership was dwindling LeftInTX Aug 2017 #19
Wonder why the KKK started accepting Catholics? keithbvadu2 Aug 2017 #25
That would be the Klan of 1915 or so Yupster Aug 2017 #21
All I can tell you is that in the 1950s and early 1960s there was a guy Hoyt Aug 2017 #37
Frankly, I don't think people give a shit either way. Behind the Aegis Aug 2017 #9
the alt-right view Jews as the arch-enemy of the white race radius777 Aug 2017 #10
These fuckers are not modern confederates GulfCoast66 Aug 2017 #11
The Confederate Secretary of State was Jewish. CanonRay Aug 2017 #13
The Hebrew Confederate Cemetery Jopin Klobe Aug 2017 #14
so to understand this heaven05 Aug 2017 #15
Hardly Yupster Aug 2017 #22
I will research heaven05 Aug 2017 #23
I'd suggest it probably has some comparison to Irish in British service Pope George Ringo II Aug 2017 #31
interesting heaven05 Aug 2017 #32
Herd instinct does strange things in predator omnivores. Pope George Ringo II Aug 2017 #35
Good luck in your research Yupster Aug 2017 #38
I'm Jewish and it was horribly eye opening to find out this did happen. mucifer Aug 2017 #26
That is horrible Not Ruth Aug 2017 #34
It is part of the KKKs heritage LeftInTX Aug 2017 #18
They hated everyone who isn't white and Protestant underpants Aug 2017 #29
So is lynching African-Americans malaise Aug 2017 #24
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